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National Defense September 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Truck Program a Test Case for Cutting Costs, And Profits A relatively small Army procurement -- the $3 billion family of medium tactical trucks -- is being watched closely by industry executives and investors as a harbinger of what might be in store for manufacturers of military equipment.
The Motley Fool July 1, 2009 Rich Smith	And the Winner Is ... Oshkosh! (By Gosh!) The Pentagon awards the first $1 billion installment on the contract for off-road MRAP armored vehicles to Wisconsin-based heavy industrialist Oshkosh Corp.
The Motley Fool November 5, 2007 Ron Vlieger	Oshkosh on the Road Again Truck manufacturer Oshkosh's merger with construction equipment maker JLG seems to be working; the company announced sales nearly double the previous year's pre-merger totals.
The Motley Fool November 4, 2009 Rich Smith	Oshkosh Waves Wand, Says "Debt, Begone!" But not all of it, nor fast enough. Military trucker Oshkosh continued to stay one step ahead of the competition this week.
The Motley Fool January 31, 2008 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Oshkosh Backs Up the Truck In advance of Oshkosh Truck's Q1 2008 reports, analysts expect sales to rise, but profits to take a big drop.
The Motley Fool October 19, 2007 Rich Smith	Force Protection Dances a Jig A $1.2 billion Pentagon award to produce additional mine-resistant, ambush-protected armored vehicles is divided between Force Protection and two other defense contractors.
The Motley Fool November 14, 2008 Rich Smith	A Contract Is Awarded, and Humvee Hilarity Ensues Boeing and Textron complain to the Government Accountability Office about having lost the Pentagon's Humvee contract. Northrop Grumman, and Oshkosh have filed protests as well.
The Motley Fool October 2, 2009 Rich Smith	Northrop Beats Boeing Not in the big race (yet), but in the warm-up.
The Motley Fool August 2, 2011 Neha Chamaria	What to Do With Oshkosh Now? Defense-spending cuts remain a concern.
The Motley Fool November 3, 2009 Rich Smith	Pentagon's Plea: More Guns, Fewer Lawyers It seems the multiple members of the military-industrial complex just cannot play well with others. Every time one of them wins a contract from the government, the losers cry foul -- and call their attorneys to protest the award.
The Motley Fool August 1, 2007 Rich Smith	Oshkosh on the Open Road Oshkosh Truck, maker of all species of trucks, from fire trucks to cement mixers to armored vehicles, reports higher sales and profits, but optimistic statements regarding MRAP need to be taken with a grain of salt.
The Motley Fool July 30, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Oshkosh Still Truckin' The truck company is set to report its fiscal third-quarter 2007 earnings. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
The Motley Fool June 29, 2009 Rich Smith	Who Wants to Be a Pentagon Billionaire? The clock's ticking down to the final minutes on the Pentagon's multibillion-dollar purchase of an estimated 5,200 all-terrain armored vehicles for the war in Afghanistan. Let's review the situation.
The Motley Fool August 20, 2008 Rich Smith	A SNAFU for JLTV The Army has pushed its decision regarding who will build the next version of the Hummer, the JLTV, all the way from June into October.
The Motley Fool October 30, 2008 Rich Smith	JLTV Me ASAP The Pentagon decides America's next Humvee is almost certainly going to be built by BAE/Lockheed, BAE/Navistar, and General Dynamics.
The Motley Fool May 7, 2009 Rich Smith	M-ATV Bids: The Pentagon Picks Its Winners The Pentagon narrowed the field of contenders to just five companies, and asked each one to provide it with three prototype M-ATVs to test. Read on to see who the winners are.
The Motley Fool October 1, 2008 Rich Smith	Oshkosh Promises, B'Gosh Investors reacted positively to Oshkosh's Friday announcement that things aren't quite as bleak as we once thought.
The Motley Fool February 20, 2009 Rich Smith	Boeing Gets the Boot Boeing's challenge of a Pentagon award to build America's Next Top Humvee has been definitively rejected. And that could be good news for investors.
National Defense October 2013 Thompson & White	Making the Case for Irrational Behavior As U.S. defense spending decreases from a gush to a trickle, contractors are desperately competing for market share. Programs are being canceled, curtailed and restructured.
The Motley Fool January 10, 2008 Rich Smith	Who Wants to Be a 70-Billionaire? Defense companies Northrop Grumman and Oshkosh team up to bid for their share of the military transport vehicle contracts.
The Motley Fool September 11, 2008 Rich Smith	Let's Play Boeing Ball! For weeks, airplane magnate Boeing has complained about the Pentagon's planned rebid of a contract to build scores of new KC-X aerial refueling tankers for the Air Force.
The Motley Fool February 6, 2008 Rich Smith	Oshkosh: Back Up the Truck Oshkosh has nothing to be embarrassed about with their Q1 2008 results. The company met profit projections, and management is holding firm on its full-year guidance.
The Motley Fool June 2, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Defense Is Good Offense for Oshkosh A Marine vehicle order wasn't a major surprise, but it's still good news for Oshkosh Truck and its shareholders.
The Motley Fool February 2, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Oshkosh Still Cheerfully Defensive The U.S. military may not always be the easiest customer to work with, but I don't think Oshkosh Truck is complaining right now. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool November 21, 2007 Rich Smith	This Ain't Your Mama's Humvee The biggest names in armored warfare are gearing up to vie for the Pentagon's Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program, which could be worth between $10 billion to $70 billion to the winner.
The Motley Fool August 11, 2009 Rich Smith	Time to Buy Force Protection? Revenues for this armored vehicle maker look fine, but profits went up in smoke.
The Motley Fool January 30, 2009 Rich Smith	Oshkosh B'Gone? The heavy truck maker's business is so bad that its bankers will soon be able to demand early payment on an unknown portion of Oshkosh's $2.6 billion in long-term debt.
The Motley Fool October 18, 2011 Jim Mueller	1 Stock to Avoid Today Oshkosh turned out to be a value trap in that there was a very real reason expectations were so low.
The Motley Fool June 27, 2011 Rich Smith	Boeing's Bid Bites Back Its KC-X contract is set to cost them $300 million.
The Motley Fool August 6, 2010 Rich Smith	Armored Cars and Naked Capitalists Force Protection seeks profits where it finds 'em.
National Defense February 2011 Jean & Magnuson	Industry Execs Ponder a Shrinking Tactical Wheeled Vehicle Market Military truck manufacturers are beginning to worry about the long-term future of the industry.
The Motley Fool June 20, 2011 Rich Smith	News Flash: We're Still at War in Afghanistan And Navistar is benefiting.
The Motley Fool November 20, 2009 Rich Smith	Boeing Wins! Over in the nation's capital, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has just overturned a lower court's ruling that stripped Boeing of its contract to service KC-135 refueling tankers.
The Motley Fool January 25, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Oshkosh My Gosh Specialty vehicle maker Oshkosh Truck defies high materials costs with a great quarter. With strong returns on equity and assets and the ability to generate real free cash flow from the business, Oshkosh just might keep the sirens blowing for some time to come.
The Motley Fool April 3, 2009 Rich Smith	The Best Defense Is ... Good Intel Your Foolish summary of the week's biggest defense industry news.
National Defense January 2009 Robert H. Williams	Armor Kits Allow Trucks on Ships Oshkosh Defense, a division of Oshkosh Corp. in Oshkosh, Wis., is constructing 1,500 reducible-height armor kits for the Marine Corps' all-terrain medium tactical vehicle replacement fleet.
The Motley Fool May 30, 2008 Rich Smith	'Tis the Season for JLTVs Let's review the several defense contractors bidding for a piece of the $70 billion contract to build the Army's next Humvee.
The Motley Fool September 19, 2011 Rich Smith	Military Intelligence: No Longer a Misnomer Congress cuts funding for the poorly conceived plan to replace the Army's fleet of 140,000 Humvees with monstrous, heavily armored, gas-guzzling Joint Light Tactical Vehicles.
The Motley Fool October 28, 2008 Rich Smith	JLTV Program Gets Smaller, Slower For five long months, we've been awaiting word of who would win the JLTV competition. It seems the military just can't decide who's going to build the darn thing.
The Motley Fool December 28, 2009 Rich Smith	6 Stocks That Never Surrender In a fight to the finish versus the S&P 500, one Motley Fool analyst has invested in these six defense stocks: General Dynamics... Raytheon... Lockheed Martin... AeroVironment... Force Protection... iRobot...
The Motley Fool February 21, 2008 Rich Smith	Ceradyne's a Li'l Less Fine Ceradyne doesn't get the contract to supply lightweight armor to Northrop Grumman and Oshkosh for their Joint Light Tactical Vehicle joint venture. But the news isn't all bad for investors.
National Defense February 2010 Erwin, Magnuson & Jean	Army, Marines Mull Over Options to Modernize Truck Fleets The Defense Department has been on a truck-buying spree for the past several years, and the demand will remain high for some time. But truck manufacturers don't expect the good times to last too much longer
The Motley Fool May 2, 2008 Rich Smith	Let's Pop the Hood at Oshkosh Let's take a close look at truck- and construction equipment-maker Oshkosh.
The Motley Fool February 5, 2004 Rich Smith	OshKosh Got a Boo-Boo It's no surprise that OshKosh is out of fashion this year, with its earnings marked down a whopping 76% for 2003, from $2.54 a share to $0.60, but better times lie ahead.
The Motley Fool January 21, 2009 Rich Smith	Analyst Jumps the Gun on Force Protection Shares of Force Protection took a critical hit, hurt by negative comments and a downgrade to "hold" from market maven Collins Stewart. Was it justified?
The Motley Fool May 11, 2005 Rich Smith	Gosh Darn It, OshKosh! Carter's to buy OshKosh at a discount. Carter's shareholders should be pleased with the purchase.
The Motley Fool February 16, 2010 Rich Smith	6 Stocks That Never Surrender In a fight to the finish versus the S&P 500, no quarter will be asked, none given in the defense industry.
The Motley Fool May 2, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Missing the Obvious on Oshkosh If you believe the reporter chatter on Oshkosh Truck, investors were surprised to find that Oshkosh is seeing some pre-buy activity -- ahead of new emission standards for 2007 that will likely lead to a tougher 2007.